Tip Fight Colon Cancer With This Food Search Skip to content Menu Menu follow us Store Articles Community Loyal-T Club Loyal-T Points Rewards Subscribe to Save Search Search The World s Trusted Source & Community for Elite Fitness Diet & Fat LossEating Tip Fight Colon Cancer With This Food A new study shows us once again how powerful food can be And in this case it' s actually a delicious food by Chris Shugart June 2, 2017April 5, 2021 Tags Diet Strategy, Feeding the Ideal Body, Nutrition & Supplements, Tips Food is a lot like drugs. The right kind can add years to your life and add life to your years. The wrong kind can suck the life-force out of you faster than your succubus of an ex girlfriend. A new study shows us just how powerful good food can be. The Study Colorectal cancer (colon cancer) kills about 50,000 people a year. It's treatable if caught early, but it can reoccur and metastasize to the liver, lungs, or other locations. Luckily, science has found a very simple way to cut down the risk of recurrence: eat some nuts. Researchers kept tabs on 826 patients with stage III colon cancer starting back in 1999. (All had gone through the usual cancer treatments.) They found those who ate a variety of nuts – two ounces or more per week – had a 42% lower chance of cancer recurrence and 57% lower chance of death than those who didn't. What Kind of Nuts Specifically, tree nuts. That includes: Almonds Walnuts Hazelnuts Cashews Pistachios Brazil nuts Pecans In fact, for those who stuck mainly to tree nuts, the chance of recurrence was 46% lower (vs. 42%) than those who didn't eat nuts regularly. Sadly, peanuts and peanut butter seemed to have no positive benefits, probably because peanuts, well, just ain't nuts. They're legumes. How Do Tree Nuts Do This Researchers knew to focus on nuts because eating them has already been linked to lower incidences of obesity, type 2 diabetes, and reductions in insulin resistance – all things that decrease your chances of beating cancer. As always in science, "more research is needed" to find the exact mechanisms of action. How to Use This Info If you have gotten or ever get colon cancer (and perhaps other types of cancer), eat two or more ounces of nuts per week as part of your healthy diet. Don't forgo the recommended cancer treatments of course, just add this to your preventative arsenal. If you don't have cancer, eat a reasonable amount of raw nuts anyway (not canned, unless they're natural and uncooked) and focus on tree nuts, not pretend-nut peanuts. Natural nut butters, like almond butter, will do the trick too. Reference American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO). "Chance of colon cancer recurrence nearly cut in half in people who eat nuts." ScienceDaily. ScienceDaily, 18 May 2017. Get The T Nation Newsletters Don' t Miss Out Expert Insights To Get Stronger, Gain Muscle Faster, And Take Your Lifting To The Next Level related posts Diet & Fat Loss Losing Your Energy Balance 4 When you’re near the end of a strict competition-style diet, extreme measures are often needed. Try these tricks out. Diet Strategy, Feeding the Ideal Body, Metabolic Conditioning, Nutrition & Supplements Lonnie Lowery, PhD June 8 Supplements This Testosterone Booster Works for Men and Women This natural testosterone booster works through different mechanisms to benefit both sexes. Here's the science and where to get it. Nutrition & Supplements, Testosterone Optimization TC Luoma July 22 Diet & Fat Loss Question of Nutrition 9 Will strict diets wreck your metabolism? Can you boost testosterone via diet? And how do you build muscle without getting fat? Answers here! Diet & Fat Loss, Nutrition & Supplements, Question of Nutrition Dr Jade Teta June 11 Supplements Tip The Strength Vitamin Most athletes have low levels of this vitamin. And only one type of it will keep your strength gains coming. Here's the science. Building Muscle, Nutrition & Supplements, Tips, Vitamin D Shawn Wayland December 23